Compliance Solutions - HIPAA Compliance
UnitedLayer offers a range of compliance solutions for our customers. UnitedLayer is SAS70 Type II certified in all its data centers. This means that an independent accounting firm has audited that policies and procedures, as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), are followed by UnitedLayer in their day-to-day service operations.
As per the SAS 70 organization, a SAS 70 Type II certification “represents that a service organization has been through an in-depth audit of their control objectives and control activities, which often include controls over information technology and related processes. In today's global economy, service organizations or service providers must demonstrate that they have adequate controls and safeguards when they host or process data belonging to their customers”
UnitedLayer is also working towards adhering to the upcoming SSAE 16 reporting standard.
UnitedLayer has several Health Care entities that offer Health care solutions. As per the Health and Human Services guidelines that for Covered Entities (i.e,. Health Care Service Providers) “The Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.”
UnitedLayer assists such customers to deploy solutions that help them meet the HIPAA guidelines.
From a data protection point of view, UnitedLayer has uncompromising, strict policies and procedures for physical access to customer physical equipment In addition, UnitedLayer Managed Services can help setup their IT infrastructure to exacting standards as required by regulatory requirements. This includes:
- Deploying and Managing Firewalls
- Running regular port scans to detect any unsafe ports
- Ongoing intrusion detection
- Setting up HIPAA compliant Storage Solutions – block, object storage and archival
This means that UnitedLayer will work with customers to set up HIPAA compliant solutions across all our service offerings - Colocation, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Firewalls and LoadBalancers, Managed Private Clouds, Managed Backup and other Availability Solutions as well as our Hybrid Solutions.